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Contemporary Art

Doris Salcedo

Widholm Julie Rodrigues, Grynsztejn Madeleine

ISBN: HB: 9780226244587, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
240 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 105 colour plates

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Doodletopia: Cartoons Draw, Design, and Color Your Own Super-Fun Cartoon Creations

Hart Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781607746911, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, January 2015
160 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, drawings

Not for sale in selected countries! For years, cartooning master Christopher Hart has given readers the tools and techniques needed to learn how to draw and cartoon. Now with "Doodletopia: Cartoons", Hart offers his readers a chance to practice and...

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Photography

Diary/Landscape

Welling James

ISBN: HB: 9780226204123, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
160 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 126 halftones

For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

Daily Painting Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist

Marine Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780770435332, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, November 2014
192 pp., 20.3x18.7 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! Too many artists find themselves in a frustrating rut: unable to sell paintings hanging in galleries, bogged down by projects they can't finish or abandon, and using any excuse to avoid working in the studio. Aut...

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Fashion

Dance and Fashion

Steele Valerie, Davis Mary, Hill Colleen, Marra Melissa, McClendon Emma, Mears Patricia, Monden Masafumi, Rasche Adelaide, Way Elizabeth, Winestein Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300208856, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers...

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Design

Do Not Disturb Hotel Graphics and Branding

Shaoqiang Wang

ISBN: HB: 9788415967286, Hoaki, September 2014
240 pp., 28.5x21 cm, richly illustrated

In a world where corporate identity is of utmost importance and hotels are at the forefront of global mobility, graphics and visuals are a key element of shaping a hotel’s brand. This book introduces the visual identities that are formed through the...

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History of Art

Dutch Painting

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095791, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2014
96 pp., 21.5x21 cm, 43 colour illus.

The National Gallery, London is home to a world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings that includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Cuyp and Ruisdael, among many others. Still lifes painted with painstaking attention to detail, sublime lan...

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History of Art

Display of Art in Roman Palace, 1550-1750

Feigenbaum Gail

ISBN: HB: 9781606062982, Getty Publications, August 2014
384 pp., 27.5x22.3 cm, 50 colour illus., 116 black&white illus.

This ambitious work lifts the veil on a pivotal chapter in the history of art and its social meaning. This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the p...

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History of Art

Duchess's Shells Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages

Tobin Beth Fowkes

ISBN: HB: 9780300192230, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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